Oh. My. God. Redux
Natalie Davis
threaten all of US and all that is decent.
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from http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulterprint091301.html
This Is War
We should invade their countries.
by Ann Coulter
Ms. Coulter is also a syndicated columnist
September 13, 2001 9:05 a.m.
Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers
herding passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone
and called her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States.
She informed him that he had better call the FBI — the plane had been
hijacked. According to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted
when her plane plunged in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon.
Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist
attack. She was a patriot to the very end.
This is not to engage in the media's typical hallucinatory overstatement
about anyone who is the victim of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell
phone call was an act of incredible daring and panache. If it were not,
we'd be hearing reports of a hundred more cell phone calls. (Even people
who swear to hate cell phones carry them for commercial air travel.)
The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She
generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found
my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over
breakfast.
I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really
nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem
nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, vebullient self.
"Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business,
bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.
Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud
to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could
only be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary — the latter being a subject
of Barbara's appropriately biting bestseller, Hell to Pay. Hillary claimed
preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy
with Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara
really did talk politics — and really did have breakfast together.
It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and
Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were
as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a
great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.
Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and
Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to
write to. Ted-and-Barbara were a good muse.
Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the
world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent
horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were
dropping in Afghanistan — and then updated the report to say they weren't
our bombs.
They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals
directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible
include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the
annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.
We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine
with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific
attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study
on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution
condemning the attack this week.
The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome
them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory
racial or "religious" profiling.
People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and
are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from
Idaho. This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and
work for our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so
bloodthirsty.
"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV.
Every single time there is a terrorist attack — or a plane crashes because
of pilot error — Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no
purpose whatsoever.
The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about
whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen
mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed
hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody
Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker
anyplace in America that day?)
Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport
harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to
assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who
the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only
Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed
civilians. That's war. And this is war.
© 2001 Universal Press Syndicate
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I agree with you about the bottom paragraphs. I think she should have waited for her neves to settle and had some counseling.
However, for those of us had eye witness views of the Pentagon Crash (My other half saw it from the living room window.) I saw it 20 minutes later in a wild dash to get to my lover because of his total terror at the deed.
We also have so many friends/neighbors in adjoining apartments whose husbands/wives have yet to be found plus several who now have been informed that their spouses have died...........................please give the woman a break. A friend of mine said my reaction was a little over the top on Tuesday - but from Beijing he couldn't comprehend the vastly different tides of emotions that flowed over all of us. I've gone from being ready to act that day and bomb someone to crying over the 24/7 stress of military body checks going to and from work, locked in our office while the police used a bomb sniffing dog on an abandoned truck a few yards away from my window, and then home to kleig lights shining into our home all night plus the almost constant hovering of helicopters.
That isn't an excuse for conclusions - there is none - I'd dismiss that article as being some one in shock over the sudden loss of a close friend.
I'm glad your a voice of kindness and reason on the net - even though we disagree at times...........YOU help bring me and I'm sure other back to the center where we can look at this rationally and not from the twissted gut of nerves that we have.
Keep going GIRL! - you are good medicine for some of us.
Marc
Lisa Liel
>Please read carefully. This is sick and frightening... and the ideas would
>threaten all of US and all that is decent.
I so disagree. It is wonderful to hear her saying this. You obviously don't know how these people think. They take any restraint as weakness. And they take weakness as an invitation to strike again.
We're not like that. We take restraint as a commendable sign of maturity. We take weakness as an invitation to come and help. We are moral. They are immoral. We are good. They are evil. We risk our own lives to protect non-combatants. They deliberately target non-combatants.
Brava to Ann Coulter. May her voice win out over the voices of those who would place their scruples over the lives of our own people.
>Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the
>world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent
>horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were
>dropping in Afghanistan — and then updated the report to say they weren't
>our bombs.
>
>They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
So right. So totally right. And if there's any sanity left in this country, they will be.
>This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals
>directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible
>include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the
>annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson.
Four thousand Palestinian Arabs danced in the streets of Nablus in celebration of the murder of our people. They are as evil as those who rejoiced over the Nazi death camps. They are as guilty as the hijackers themselves, and should pay the same penalty.
>We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine
>with scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific
>attack. We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study
>on "terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution
>condemning the attack this week.
>
>The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome
>them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory
>racial or "religious" profiling.
A modern sickness in our country that we can't afford. It's our lives if we do. Will it be your loved one next who falls victim to these evil animals? Will you abandon your scruples when they've destroyed everything you hold dear? If you care more about them than their victims, will you still when you're one of those victims?
>"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV.
>Every single time there is a terrorist attack — or a plane crashes because
>of pilot error — Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no
>purpose whatsoever.
Hell, every time you allow your bags to be put through an X-ray machine at the airport, you're forfeiting your rights. The government set aside the 4th and 5th amendments at airports when hijacking began in the 70s. No one complains about it (except for militia types), because we know it's a matter of life and death. This is no different.
>The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about
>whether passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen
>mesomorphs ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed
>hijackers to board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody
>Tuesday. (Did those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker
>anyplace in America that day?)
>
>Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport
>harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to
>assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who
>the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
>
>We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
>Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only
>Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed
>civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Well, other than the conversion nonsense, I'd have to agree with this. Wholeheartedly.
Thanks for posting this, even if you did so with a negative slant. More people should see it.
Lisa
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>Keep going GIRL! - you are good medicine for some of us.
What a nice thing to say. Yeah, Natalie's a real trooper. With brave
soldiers like her in our family, I have so much pride.
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Chief Thracian
wrote:
<<
We're not like that. We take restraint as a commendable sign of
maturity.
>>
If such is TRULY true, then we have no option but the high
ground...which is continuing to show restraint under unimagined
duress. This includes, of course, not really knowing (yet) who the
enemy is.
<<
We take weakness as an invitation to come and help. We are moral.
They are immoral. We are good. They are evil. We risk our own lives
to protect non-combatants. They deliberately target non-combatants.
>>
You are saying we need to get into the enemies' "heads", and then
respond in a way that we conclude is the best way to achieve victory
and thus, global peace. And we believe the best way is THEIR way,
because we have this armchair psychology that has brainwashed us to
think like that.
For if we TRULY believe that self restraint is indeed the moral
ground...then there is certainly nothing imaginable on God's Green
Earth that would justify using ANY options that compromise our
restraint.
<<
Brava to Ann Coulter. May her voice win out over the voices of those
who would place their scruples over the lives of our own people.
>>
You define "scruples" as selling out? ROTFLMAO.
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